Succotash Shut-In

Succotash Epi41: Backstagin' With Hal Sparks

Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, was launched in 2011 with the idea of promoting comedy soundcasts in what was then a marketplace still trying to find its way. By featuring short clips of shows being produced by funny folks both known and unknown, we like to feel that we maybe had a little tiny, eeny weeny, itsy bitsy bit to do with helping to ignite the torch of soundcasts across the globe! (But then we've always had a rather high opinion of ourselves...)

Original show host and executive producer Marc Hershon, along with booth announcer Bill Heywatt, engineer/producer Joe Paulino, associate producer Tyson Saner, musical director Scott Carvey, and booth assistant Kenny Durgis have kept the flame alive o'er these many years. In 2018, Hershon abandoned the host chair and anointed Saner to the position, with nary a notice from the legions of listeners. Typical.

Getting very excited as the
holiday season looms. Not so much for Hanukkah or Christmas, but
for Succotash Day! It's coming up on Tuesday, December 4th,
and it's all thanks to Jabs, the
main man at The DHead
Factor podcast in Australia. (We talked about it when he
was my special guest co-host in Epi40, if you missed it…) Given our
production schedule, this show — Epi41 — is about as close as we're
going to get to celebrating it on the air (on the pod?), although
we might surprise you. Click over to Jabs' show on the day and find
out which other podcasts will be talking about us — and we'd
appreciate any ratings, reviews and other kudos that you
might want to foist upon us up at iTunes, Stitcher and anywhere
else Succotash is heard.

Getting on with this
show, I've got my interview with Special Guest
Hal Sparks. As I already
apologize to Hal in the epi, I recorded our chat two months
ago, when he was doing a couple of shows at Yoshi's in San
Francisco. I would have gotten this up earlier but…it's
Succotash. One of these days we'll actually get everything
together on time. But Hal was a terrific interview and, what's
more, it was a real treat to see him live. As long as I've been in
the comedy world, our paths have never crossed and I've only seen
him on TV, in the movies, heard his voicework…but never seen him on
stage. check out his homesite for his live appearances
and radio shows!

DO IT FOR THE
KIDS!

I also have a chat via Skype
with Ethan Dettenmaier,
host of Combat Radio,
about his upcoming 2nd
Annual Christmas Breakfast for Homeless Children. That's
happening on Saturday, December 8th, at the Salt Creek Grille in
Valencia, CA. It was nice to connect with Ethan live after playing
a few of his clips on the show, and to hear about this great cause
he's putting together to bring Christmas morning to some kids who
might otherwise be having nothing but pain this year for the
holidays.

POD MAFIA
ASSEMBLE!

As mentioned on this podcast,
I got the opportunity to have an informal get-together (AKA beers)
with two members of the still-coagulating Pod Mafia.
Ed Wallick of
Don't Quit Your Daycast and
Tom Bevis, host of
Destination Asphyxiation, met up
with me in San Francisco over the Thanksgiving weekend and we
chatted about all things podcasty. Great to see those guys and be
sure to check out their shows.

JUST IN TIME FOR THE
HOLIDAYS!

If you're looking to do some
cyber Christmas shopping this year and Amazon is your destination,
you can help put a little something in the ol' Succotash
stocking by clicking on our Amazon carousel at the bottom of our
homesite to get there. That way, Amazon shaves off a tiny bit of
whatever you spend with them and kicks it back to us. On the other
hand, browing through our Succotashery
might be just the thing if you're looking for some of our lovely
merch to make this holiday season bright!

CLIPS!

Besides the two interviews in
Epi41, we even had room for a few clips. Here's what you'll hear on
the show this time around:

The Fireside Chronicles
I’ve been seeing tweets by The Fireside Chronicles for a bit
now and lo and behold, a clip from that show in England arrived in
our Tweetsack! Hosted by Waggy, Matty &
Phil, it’s become the sort of flagship show for a little
network of podcasts which includes Principa Hypothetica,
The Bedside Chronicles, The Kalahari Chronicles and
The Ringside Chronicles. In this clip, they mostly talk
about sausage rolls…

Ratchet & The
Geek
Over on Splitsider.com in the This Week in Comedy Podcasts column,
I’m reviewing Ratchet & The Geekwith
Luvvie Ajayi and
Scott
Hanselman. They’ve only put up their
3rd show but they already have over 10,000 downloads. Luvvie runs a
highly read comedy blog and Scott's digital nerdiness spreads out
in a blog and two other podcasts about tech. It’s entertaining
chat, blending gadget talk with current events – their homesite
calls it “The Intersection of social media, pop culture and
technology.”

The Sibling
Rivalry Podcast
I foundJeremy Grater,
Aaron Ristow, and Stacy
Black with arandom grab off of iTunes'
New & Noteworthy this week to bring you a clip from
The Sibling Rivalry Podcast. (You have to understand that
“New and Noteworthy” is a bit of a misnomer, especially when they
have a show like Sibling Rivalry because this clip is from their
309th show!)

That it for Epi41. Next show
I will have Special Guest Host That Chris Gore from
the PodCRASH
podcast with me, pulling clips and kicking back in San
Francisco.

Happy Succotash Day (December
4th), everybody! What a great day to pass the
Succotash!